
Senior Manager, PPI Business System
- Warrington, Cheshire
- £66,000-107,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Drive improvements through leadership-level kaizens, 3P, RCA, and other workshops across all functions of the organization, including prioritizing, executing, and executive presentations of results.
- Partner with SG&A leadership to ensure an efficiency pipeline of critical initiatives aligned with business priorities, metrics, and results. Establish sustainability and governance mechanisms.
- Facilitate PPI workshops and training sessions to build capability within SG&A teams. Collaborate with cross-functional teams on continuous improvement projects, report performance to senior leadership.
- Lead PPI Steering Committee to maintain an active pipeline of PPI projects aligned with business priorities. Ensure sustainability mechanisms for past projects.
- Serve as a subject matter expert for Lean concepts, training, and tools application in support of high-impact initiatives. Coach the coaches.
- Proven leadership skills, including the ability to work in a matrixed environment.
- Digital and automation expertise in one or more areas, including GenAI, RPA, machine learning, or low code development.
- Ability to manage/influence across and up into the organization without direct reporting responsibility.
- Motivate cross-functional teams to drive customer happiness through business process improvement.
- Impactful communicator (verbal and written) with the ability to positively influence leadership and all organizational levels.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Science, Operations, Business, or related field or equivalent experience required.
- Minimum 8 years of Lean leadership expertise, with extensive experience implementing end-to-end Business-level change initiatives.
- Minimum 4 years of leadership experience in function other than PPI, such as Manufacturing, Supply Chain, or Quality.
- Black Belt certification preferred.
- Strong experience developing, training, and mentoring teams.
- Proficiency in PPI tools, including standard work, process and product 3P, Value-Analysis/Value Engineering, error-proofing, material flow, and kanban.
- Strong financial and statistical acuity with experience helping teams build efficiency funnels and active project decks to exceed targeted levels.
- Demonstrated project management skills.